Lex and Cassandra, working specifically with dick and Bruce on a project for a turn, with Cassandra reading there body language, specifically dick's who is easier to read than bruce, every time they have to bail to go fight crime in Gotham.
For me it is about more Cassandra screen time and her working with Lex for better results and not being stuck in Lexcorp tower year after year doing one special action after another. It is probably better for her mental health too.
Tentatively on the 9th. While I am able to get updates out faster, IRL my job and classes have picked up such that I have less time to write this week.
Could I ask you just to tell us now? Even if only in spoilers for those that want to know?
That's why I'm cutting the companies out of it with my write in. Instead of contentious business arrangement their board can interfere with or have work differences, it'll likely end up a development action, where the two grown billionaires oversee their adopted children attempt to develop an area.
Eh maybe but it would still be rather difficult for Lex and Bruce to have an amicable relationship while their companies are actively sabotaging each other. And that's ignoring the Batman side of things.
Bruce is against what his company did, and this gives him a chance to demonstrate as much. The point isn't to develop an longterm amiable relationship, but to put Bruce and Dick under a microscope of Cassandra's body reading in hopes that they'll be called away to fight crimes a few times during the cooperation, and Cassandra with that information it becomes easier to figure out Bruce and his son are moonlighting as Vigilantes. That and PR of Lex being the better man who doesn't blame Bruce for his boards actions. "It can't be helped that wayne is but one man with only some control of over the company which bears his family name." Plus, ir's a feather in Cassandra's cap.
That's fair though I'm kinda hesitant to spend one of Cassandra's development actions on that since uncovering Bruce's identity isn't exactly our number one priority IMO.
It wouldn't be a wasted action because it will still be a major success in developing an area(stewardship) that she can learn from.
Fair point.
True but I'd definitely like at least some immediate revenge.
Now that we've discussed it a bit more in detail I actually think something between Cassandra and Dick would be worthwhile so long as it doesn't require Lex himself. Plus I think any defence system that involves Bruce and Wayne Enterprises would be untrustworthy by its very nature.
I cannot tell you until the "A Metropolis Welcome" event is over. A big reason why I haven't just said what happened is so that it doesn't skew things too heavily on that event. Once that event is over, then I'm happy to share the information. For now you can content yourself knowing that however bad it was, Bruce immediately set Lois on Wayne Enterprises so that the board faces as much public backlash as possible over this action.
The problem is that you've got an event that has to have happened before the board of Wayne Enterprises did whatever they did ("A Metropolis Welcome" happens before). IC Lex should have no knowledge of any of this during that event so I decided to keep it vague enough for now that you can't really bring it up in the event itself.
Sure, I don't feel particularly strongly one way or the other about that vote and hopefully this will soothe my nerves a little bit.
I'm not sure how much you are intending to let slip here but I will say that if we're meant to be able to work it out from these hints they're not great. Don't get me wrong it's better than nothing but knowing that it's connected to a complicated and wide reaching law doesn't really narrow it down much.
I highly doubt that that's it. I don't think we have anywhere near enough of a monopoly on anything for them to pull that nor should they have the pull to do it.
Cool, I'll send you the PM explaining things in a bit. Just know that I'm putting trust in you not to talk about this with other people to influence the vote.
You're not meant to work out what specifically they did so much as you are expected to rule out really crazy stuff like assassination attempts or attacking LexCorp. It's basically meant to limit the scope so that the worst, most extreme scenarios are clearly off the table.
No problem, I've also already edited the vote for that event out of the relevant post
This is being counted as the first strike. Prior to this point everything was just business and they weren't actively thwarting you (just making competing products). This is a little different than everything they've done before and it's a pretty big escalation on Wayne Enterprises part from what they've done before.
